Our Fourth of July

I hope you all had a wonderful 4th of July.

We celebrated the 4th of July at my Aunt and Uncle's house again this year. They have a pool in their backyard, so we had a great time swimming in the sun, eating yummy food and desserts and enjoying time with family!

The festive pies I made for dessert.

The yummy red velvet dessert my mom made.

Later that evening, we went with my sister and her family to see the fireworks show in the town over from us. They put on a great fireworks display and we were super close. We had so much fun there. Jackson and Mason were a little scared of the big booms, but they did pretty good considering how close we were.

They had a live 80's cover band playing while we waited for it to get dark enough for the fireworks.

The boys danced in the grass while we waited. :-)

 Jake and Jackson waiting for the fireworks to start.

My sister and her family, waiting for the fireworks to start.

Then at dusk, they started the fireworks show!

We had a great 4th of July this year!

Our Visit with Big Foot!

Jackson is REALLY into trucks, cars and tractors right now. He can spot a truck a mile away and as soon as he sees it, he says Whoa! Its so cute how infatuated he is with them right now.

Lucky for us, we live very close to where they keep Big Foot (the Monster Truck). So Jake and I decided we would take Jackson to see it this past Friday afternoon. I got him all dressed in his monster truck shirt and we headed over there, only to find out that unfortunately, they were closed. :-(

However, that didn't stop us. Ha! Jake hopped the fence and we still got a couple of pictures with Jackson and the monster truck! (shhh, don't tell anyone) Jackson wasn't as excited about it as we thought he would be. I think it was just so big that he really couldn't quite grasp that it was a truck. Nonetheless, we had fun taking a few pictures and hope to take him back when they're open he's just a little bit older and can understand what's going on a little more.

Project Life 2013 - Week 26

My page for week 26.

Happy 4th of July

I hope you're all enjoying your 4th of July! We are celebrating at my Aunt and Uncle's house today with family, food and fun!

I thought I'd share a few 4th of July decorations and ideas that I've found on Pinterest or that are actually in my house. 

 #One, #Two, #Three, (#four is a rag wreath my sister made for me, I love it! Tutorial found here.), #Five, (#six is my chalkboard that I decorated for the 4th of July using my cricut machine.), (#seven are the pies I made last 4th of July that I plan to make again this year!)

Catching up on Project Life 2012

I've been slightly behind on my project life 2013 album, so I've had no time to work on my 2012 album. Last week I finally got caught up for 2013 and started working on 2012 again. Yay!

Week 16 of 2012!

For this layout I used the Glad Project full kit freebie from Truman Studio.

Week 15 of 2012!

For this layout, I used the New Beginnings full kit freebie from Sweet Shoppe Designs.


*** P.S. - We're going to take a break from the Throwback Thursday Link-Up this week because of the 4th of July holiday and we'll resume next week! ***

Project Life 2013: Weeks 24 and 25

Week 25

For this layout, I used the Love My Dad mini kit freebie from River-Rose.

Week 24
This week was a challenge because when I went through my pictures for this week, I realized I only had just a few phone pictures. I hadn't gotten my big camera out at all. :-( 

I used the That's Life mini kit freebie from Kristen Cronin-Barrow.

Jackson's 20 Month Post!

My sweet boy is growing so fast. It amazes me how tall he is. I often hear that he looks like a 2 year old. :-)

He's been eating really well these last couple of weeks. Still loving a majority of the same foods. A new one that he loves is pickles. He even tried to say pickle the other night! He loves peas, corn, green beans, applesauce, pudding, chicken (nuggets), hot dogs, fish sticks, teddy grahams and fruit snacks.

We had an ear re-check a week and a half ago and his ears were still red, so she put him on another antibiotic. Omnicef this time. I'm hoping and praying when she re-checks again that his ears are all cleared up!

Jackson has become really interested in cars and trucks. I've been buying him a few hot wheels every time we go to the store. He loves playing with them and will play with them for long periods of time. Its really cute. He also loves to point out every car or truck that drives by our house when we're outside. The bigger the truck the better he likes it. We saw a fire truck last night and he got so excited! I'm thinking about scheduling a tour of the new Fire Station we have in our town so he can see a fire truck close up. 

I don't know of too many new words that he's said this month. He did try to say pickle and if you show him a boat or a picture of a boat, he knows what it is and says boat. I've been trying super hard to get him to say car and truck lately, but he just won't do it. He's said car once and my mom said he said truck once, but he will not say them again. The little stinker!

He's very active and can climb and jump and do many physical things. He will try just about anything and doesn't seem scared at all. 

He still has 16 teeth. No new teeth to report.

Its been a great month and as always, we are having so much fun and are enjoying him so much!